DR. SANDRA LUNTE is the holder of the Dr. William R. Hammond Professorship in Liberal Arts.

She teaches flute, flute choir, flute class, woodwind trio, and sophomore theory. She leads the yearly summer High School Flute Camp and the November High School Flute Invitational, two major recruiting events for the university.

She was the recipient of a 2005 Artist Fellowship granted by the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and with her duo partner, pianist Richard Seiler, was named 2006 Northeast Louisiana Artist of the Year. She has received numerous Louisiana Division of the Arts artist mini grants, and her flute, voice and piano trio was awarded a $20,000 Challenge America Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, through the Louisiana Division of the Arts. She is listed on the Louisiana Artist and Touring Rosters.

She has performed and adjudicated at many state, regional, national, and international conventions, including the 2005 convention in San Diego, where she and harpist Elizabeth Richter gave the world premiere of Gary Schocker?s "Chimera," a work they commissioned. The premiere recording of this piece appears on the duo?s compact disc "Montage-Four Centuries of Music for Flute and Harp," released on Centaur Records. She has been heard twice on National Public Radio's "Performance Today" and has recorded seven compact discs with the National Flute Choir.

She serves as principal flute of the Monroe Symphony Orchestra. Her teachers have included Katherine Borst Jones, Paul Boyer, and James Pellerite.

She was the Emy-Lou Biedenharn Endowed Professor in Music from 2003-2006.

The Dr. William R. Hammond Professorship in Liberal Arts endowment was established to encourage and reward excellence in teaching, learning and research at ULM.